From: Elaine Lillyman <>
Subject: Another Virus - Be Careful
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 19:56:41 -0700
Everyone please be careful
I just got word of another bug that is making the rounds, just in time for
the holidays! Here is what Symantec (Norton Anti-Virus) has to say about
it:
W32.Reeezak.A@mm (also known as W32.Zacker.C@mm and W32.Maldal.C@mm) is a
mass-mailing worm that uses Microsoft Outlook and MSN Messenger. The worm
will have the following characteristics:
Subject: Hii
Body:
I can't describe my feelings
But all i can say is
Happy New Year :)
bye
Attachment: Christmas.exe
In addition, the worm modifies the Internet Explorer start page to a
malicious homepage. This webpage uses an Internet Explorer exploit to
create a VBScript file on the system which then spreads itself via network
shares and mIRC. The script file also attempts to delete common antivirus
products.
Needless to say, if you get a message like this, do not open the
attachment. For more information on this critter and how to remove it if
you were asleep at the switch, here are two sources:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/ type="text/javascript">DisplayMail('mm.html','w32.reeezak.a');
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32zackerc.html
Elaine
Alberta, Canada